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title: When Kerry punched a boy in the arm for teasing her, everyone said «… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: When Kerry punched a boy in the arm for teasing her, everyone said «good for her», though a boy doing the same would have been in trouble. Who acts: Kerry, everyone, boy. A sentence of the lesson «Girls who fight and double standards» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Girls who fight and double standards, sentence 7

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When Kerry punched a boy in the arm for teasing her, everyone said «good for her», though a boy doing the same would have been in trouble.

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**Who acts:** Kerry, everyone, boy · **What happens:** punch, tease, say, do, be · **To what, where:** boy, arm, Kerry, same, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Girls who fight and double standards» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kerry, everyone, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.lesson:7
# text = When Kerry punched a boy in the arm for teasing her, everyone said «good for her», though a boy doing the same would have been in trouble.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Kerry	Kerry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	punched	punch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
24	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punch** | past | Kerry | a boy |  | the arm |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Patient in arm=Location |
| 2 | **tease** | gerund | Kerry *not said here* | Kerry |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | the same |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | would · perfect | a boy |  |  | trouble |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.lesson:7`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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